Research Interests

We are pursuing the design and construction of a mammalian cell-based sensor-memory device. Such a device will be able to report whether specific events occur in a cell or whether certain compounds are present in the cell's environment, and then store this information in itself and in all the cell's progeny. Furthermore, such a system could also be designed to report on quantity of a particular stimulus. A key feature of such a system will be its portability to various environmental stimuli or specific cellular events, and will not be limited to very specific chemical inductions.